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Foreign income pushing up Belgian taxes (exemption with progression)
Interested to see what's the worst that can happen to my Belgian salary depending on my earnings abroad.
Let's say I earn €30k in Belgium, and my foreign income is high enough to push all of this into the 50% bracket. Is it correct that after deductions (social sec, personal allowance etc) of about €17k I can only have extra taxes applied to the remaining €13,000? I.e. paying €6.5k rather than something like €3.5k.
If that's the case it wouldn't matter if I earn an extra €30 or €80k abroad - the extra tax would be the same...? (Apart from the municipal tax which I think is charged separately).
I know this is over simplified but just to get a general idea.
Yeah - it's way "over simplified" because different types of income can be taxed differently, and you may well be taxed on non-belgian income in the other country and be subject to double-taxation treaties.
I'm not even going to try to speculate here - it's pointless. Ask a specialist (the Belgian tax people for instance)
You need to speak to the tax office and/or an accountant.
It depends how you look at it, but your first €30k of income will basically be taxed at same level. But then your extra income will attract the higher rates.
"question only concerns my Belgian income from"
You're naive if you think you can get an answer here.
Hi Gronman, unfortunately, from what you've written either you haven't explained yourself properly or you have a pretty fundamental misunderstanding of how income taxes work.
It's already been suggested to you here:
https://www.thebulletin.be/resident-belgium-working-uk
and here:
https://www.thebulletin.be/tax-return-help
that you either go and see an accountant, or go to your local tax office.
Gronman, eventually what heppened ? Did you declare your UK income in Belgium and were you taxed on it?
